20 words come out when you unscramble PERPS, starting with PERPS itself: 9 in Scrabble, 11 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 9 points: PREPS and REPPS. Among the shorter answers, 4 reach 8 points, PREP, PEPS and REPP among them. The 5 letters split into 1 vowel and 4 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from PERPS split into 3 with 5 letters, 5 with 4, 8 with 3 and 4 with 2.
Keep every letter of PERPS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with PE · ending in PS · all 5-letter words
What PERPS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
PERPS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERPS itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 20) | 19 | 20 | 17 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Words With Friends* skips 2 of them: PERPS and PERP. Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: PRE.
These 8 words take every letter of PERPS plus a single extra one.